Recounts the cases presented at the conference on UFOs held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1992, in which ordinary men and women reported being taken aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft and examined by aliens. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

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Inspired perhaps by this summer's blockbuster film adaptation of Carl Sagan's Contact, a handful of nonfiction works have been reissued, all of which explore the possibility that we are not alone. C.D.B. Bryan's Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind--an engrossing work written for those skeptical about extraterrestrial visitors--is a compilation of testimonials and interviews about alien abductions. Bryan's sources, interviewed at a five-day academic conference held at M.I.T., include psychiatrists, researchers, science writers, "ufologists," and abductees, including John Mack, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard and author of Abduction: Human Encounters with Aliens. In addition, Close Encounters includes transcripts from hypnotherapy sessions with self-described "abductees." Bryan, journalist and author of Friendly Fire (1976), blends a reporter's objectivity with great compassion for the traumatized victims of these mysterious and horrific violations.

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Book Description:Penguin Books, 1996. Book Condition: New. Brand New, Unread Copy in Perfect Condition. A+ Customer Service! Summary: Alien abduction is hardly the usual topic for a serious scientific conference, yet in 1992 just such a conference was held at M.I.T. Respected journalist: C. D .B. Bryan was astonished by the utterly amazing and utterly convincing accounts -- many rendered her, in chilling detail -- given by ordinary men and women of having been abducted and examined aboard extraterrestrial spacecraft by spindly-limbed, telepathic graycreatures with large foreheads and huge, compellingtear-shaped black eyes. In Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind he attempts to answer the question at the heart of the mystery: if what abductees say is happenning isn't happening, then what is'. Bookseller Inventory # ABE_book_new_0140195270